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Agos Newspaper:
Journalism is said to function
on the baseline of free of
speech and narrates the lives
of people and other creatures
that don’t constitute ascendant
and ruling class or society. Because of it, Agos Newspaper was founded
in 1996 by Hrant Dink and his friends to pursue and conduct this aim.
Since no other journalist or newspaper didn’t take on this responsibility,
Agos Newspaper adopted the intention to uncover and announce the
concerns of Armenian people living in Turkey. It’s the first newspaper
that is published in both Armenian and Turkish under the Republic of
Turkey. It gives priority to democratization, minority rights, confrontation
with the past, preservation and development of the pluralism in Turkey.
Agos Newspaper struggles against the censorship, ban imposed by the
government in the publishing and threat of elimination of an identity in
Turkey.: http://www.agos.com.tr/en/home
Hrant Dink was murdered in front of the older building of Agos
newspaper in 2007. Agos Newspaper is currently located in Hrant
Dink Foundation and the older building is aimed to be converted into a
memorial complex.
Hrant Dink Foundation was founded in 2007 in order to revive
Hrant Dink’s dreams, struggle, language and heart. It aims to develop
and maintain dialogue, peace and empathy. It works on memory
and history works without nationalism and racism, media watch on
hate speech, development of the cultural relations between Turkey
and Armenia via Beyond Borders Travel Grant, Western Armenian
language courses, support of the democratization of Turkey, creative
works for the children and young, collecting and archiving the articles,
photographs and documents about Hrant Dink. It has also run Asulis
Laboratory that fights against the discrimination in Turkey, works on
the speech and aims to create dialogue by organizing public talks.
Hrant Dink Foundation has run its activities in the Anarad Hığutyun
Building since 2015 March. Anarad Hığutyun Building was firstly built
to enable The Anarad Hığutyun Sisters Union to provide especially
the poor families’ daughters with both a religious and an educational
place.